Lois McMaster Quotes

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Lois McMaster

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• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • You
  • Chance
  • Analyst

• It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Myself

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Culture
  • See
  • Said

• I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • School
  • Read
  • Well

• It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Effort

• Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Good
  • City
  • Los Angeles

• Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?

  

  Obie Trice
  • About
  • Coming
  • Out

• I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Best
  • Effort

• I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Commitment
  • Left
  • Injustices

• True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Real
  • True

• It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.

  

  Karl Marx

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

  

  Peter Levine
  • Power

• I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Done
  • Job
  • Law

• I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Power
  • Idiot
  • Objects